Multi-faceted designer Satyendra Pakhalé, trained in India and in Switzerland, has been working globally from his studio in Amsterdam since 1998. He has cultivated a design practice that focuses on the ‘culture of creation’, with the sensorial qualities that have so often been lost due to the excesses of industrialization and consumerism. His design work is an act of unity going beyond any binary such as high- and low-tech, industrial production and traditional crafts, functionality and poetic significance. Pakhalé explores diverse cultural roots and creates contemporary objects and architectural spaces with the awareness that being a designer means being socially and culturally responsible. He was the founding dean of the Master of Design for Humanity and Sustainable Living at the Design Academy Eindhoven from 2006-2010. His works are in permanent collections at prestigious museums throughout the world, among which the Victoria and Albert Museum London, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and Centre Pompidou, Paris.
